The politics of milk: how a simple drink got caught up in power, culture and identity

By JC Niala, Head of Research, Teaching and Collections, History of Science Museum, University of Oxford
Johanna Zetterström-Sharp, Associate Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies, UCL

Milk is one of the most familiar things in the world – comforting, wholesome, ordinary. But beneath this common perception lies something far more complicated.

Examining the UK and Kenya, our project Milking It! explores the deep cultural, historical and emotional attachments to milk, and how these collide with the realities of industrialised production, environmental pressure and its colonial past.

We’ve spoken with dairy farmers caught between economic survival and public expectation, traced milk’s heritage…

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